Persona 3 FES (Low Level, Hard) - Fanatic Tower 

honestly it might be worth to already look into the stat inheritance shenanigans already, as that could solve this issue. I'm not sure how many gems you'd have gotten by this point (from subbosses obviously), but it's possible that you'd have quite a bit of en from cards. one of my strats (for nyx) involved using cadenza, and I managed to get my apsaras to about 80 in all stats via stat inheritance. edit: nevermind, just realized stat increases are banned for this run lol. my points still stands though, should you want to use something like apsaras for cadenza way later it is possible.

How is Masukukaja the worst buff?

@@ArshadZahid_nohandleideas For defensive purposes I find that it is lackluster compared to marakukaja because you have party wide healing and in p3 SP management is not much of an issue. For offensive purposes it simply means you don´t miss as often and in order to have the same effective dps as a matarukaja buff it would need to increase the amount of attacks that connect by approx 33%. The argument for sukukaja is that it does some combination of raku/taru-kaja and that this combination outwighs the value of any one of the other two but from my experience it never really did.

@@ArshadZahid_nohandleideas because all sukukaja does is reduce the amount of RNG needed. if the tower decides to mazionga, you're still taking 3+ turns healing(unless you dodge ofc). unless you get 3 dodges (meaning you only need to heal a single person), your turn economy is generally unchanged. the only use case for evasion really is somebody that WILL die dodging. even then, there's an argument to be made that if you can win with sukukaja, you probably can without it, so a lot of the time it's not even worth the bother trying to include it in a strategy. its effects are also often intangible so it might be more worth to just attack for 50 damage instead of sukukaja'ing. the main difference I would like to point out though is that cadenza and masukukaja albeit having the same effect in reality, are counted as different buffs and therefore stack. yes, that means you can stack both normal masukukaja and cadenza's masukukaja(plus a sukunda from aki for good measure) for some pretty nasty evasion. use that how you will. @UpItIsMe ehh, somewhat agree and somewhat disagree. it's not about the raw damage increase in the case of offensive sukukaja, more often than not it's about consistency. barring scenarios like SMT3 solo lucy (where your accuracy is in the dumps due to shitty formulas, so the damage increase is actually +33%), it's mostly just about making RNG not as bad. however impactful that is in the long run though, idk. as for defensive sukukaja, there are scenarios and scenarios. some of the time even rakukaja+tarunda isn't enough. party members will likely get one shot in a low level run, sometimes making evasion the only way to survive. on top of it, although this doesn't apply here, evasion does lead to some nasty turn economy in solo runs. in one of the 1v3 fights I know I hard relied on evade wind, and if possible used sukukaja on myself to improve the odds. (yes, they had wind break, and yes, I stacked abs wind + evade wind). this doesn't apply as often in full party runs though, since usually you're just healing back, and 3 party members being low hp is mechanically identical to 4 being low hp. it only differs if the 4th is actually dead.

I see… Just out of curiosity, does the same apply to the debuff equivalent?